27 Self Care Activities To Try At Home
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At the very core of our essence, humans are spiritual beings in animal bodies. These bodies are what we call the self.
Our animal bodies have three core needs - food, clothing and shelter.
Having a self-care routine can be as easy and simple as making sure to eat enough calories a day and drink enough water; then, it can be expanded into clothing oneself warmly, and finally, to assure you maintain a suitable shelter.
Shelter is a variable term that can range from a tarp, to makeshift lean-to, to a car roof, to an apartment or even a full sized house.
Maintaining these elements in your life on a daily basis, or seeing that they are kept maintained for you, is the basis of a solid self-care routine, and the basis of the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, at meeting your physiological needs.
Beyond the above, the self-care activities you choose are all designed to meet your core needs as a human on this earth, from your biological needs all the way up to your spiritual needs.
Core needs include all of this and are dependent on each of our personal preferences, meaning while we all need food and love, our opinion on which type of each may differ. Same with clothing, safety, and housing.
These small differences in our preferences of what we need to survive, in ecological studies, is called ecosystem niching, and it is what allows so many diverse creatures to live in harmony side-by-side on our planet today.
You choosing one self-care activity over another, and someone near you choosing the reverse, is what leaves enough self-care resources for everyone.
Meaning there is enough room for everyone on this planet to do self-care.
With that in mind, below I’m going to go over some self-care activities you can perform, and when you review this list, keep in mind some may resonate with you and some not.
Choose the ones that do, and try them.
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Take a drink of your favorite beverage
Light a candle
Glance outside for three seconds and notice what you enjoy about the day so far
Put on a cozy sweater
Listen to music you like
Eat a snack
Gaze at one of the plants in your area and appreciate it for a moment
Internally say three positive statements about your life
Set the intention to have a good rest of your day
Mentally plan your next meal
Take care of a house plant
Run through your finances, notice how much you have to use, appreciate what is there
Think about five people who have been caring to you today or in the past
Visit one creature (digital, plant, animal, or person) that cheers you up
Congratulate yourself for completing something on your calendar this week
Perform three of your favorite stretches
Imagine all your thoughts coming to a centerpointe in your mind, then exhale
Make a physical vision board of a goal you have
Review an old vision board, and see if there are any dreams you can make true today
Bathe your body or wash your hands and face
Moisturize
Say a loving statement to yourself
Inhale your favorite essential oil
Go for a walk
Sort out your old notes of to-do’s, throw away what’s been done
Say thank you to someone - a company, a person, or a natural resource
Recall two things that happened yesterday that you appreciate
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Select a few of the above that speak to you the most.
Try your selections every day for a week, then see how you feel, bookmarking this page if you need to come back to it.
If you feel good, keep up with your new self-care routine.
The benefits of doing a few self-care activities every day is you develop a routine and usually, after you perform them, you feel your needs are met, meaning you feel safe, loved and cared for where you are.
When you feel your needs are met and the feelings of contentment are produced, usually your entire mood then goes up, too - towards passion, bliss, excitement, and/or joy which raises the frequency of your thoughts.
In short, self-care can put you in a better mood. When you are in a better mood, you have more positive thoughts.
These more positive thoughts can affect the creatures around you, which can influence the ecosystem of your local area at home or at the workplace.
Because you feel more positive, people may respond more positively to you, you may have more harmonious interactions with others, which can lead to an increase in resources, and thus, more options for self-care.
So while self-care at first may feel selfish, it is actually a positive feedback loop that starts with you.
Self-care is a way to give yourself space to breathe and be in a fast-paced world. When you have space, it can give others a chance to see and appreciate you more, too.
By giving to yourself, physiologically, emotionally, or mentally, you then also have more energy you can give to others. This can lead to more productivity at work or in your hobbies.
You’ll feel like you have more to offer when asked, which can foster healthier bonds with those in your life.
When an environment has healthy bonds they are mutually beneficial bonds, and even if they are somewhat unspoken, in these bonds, everyone feels better and things run more smoothly.
So ultimately, you doing self-care is good for not just you, but it is good for your relationships and community.
To end, when people ask you why you are in such a good mood after doing the above activities, share the insight that you make self-care a priority.
The world could become a merrier place - beginning with you as the merriest, due to how good you feel from your self-care practice.
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